I filmed the hit. I kept the footage. That was my first mistake. My second was thinking Lev Morozov only wanted the evidence. Lev is Blackridge’s untouchable hockey captain: cold, brutal, disciplined, and built like every warning I should have listened to. He should scare me because he is cruel. But he scares me because I saw him almost choose differently. When a freshman is injured during a closed team ritual, the university moves fast to bury the truth. But the footage in my camera proves the silence was rehearsed. The deeper I dig, the more I uncover a pattern of broken players, covered-up injuries, and old lies with Lev’s name carved into them. Now the coach wants me quiet. The team is closing ranks. A rival player is watching too closely. And Lev keeps putting himself between me and every threat, even when his protection starts to feel like possession. He calls me krasavchik. Pretty boy. At first, it sounds like mockery. Then it starts to sound like mine. The Pretty Boy Penalty is a dark, high-tension M/M college hockey romance with a possessive captain, a fearless filmmaker, bi-awakening, hurt/comfort, found family, secret footage, team loyalty, and an HEA earned through blood, truth, and the penalty neither man regrets. Read it if you like your romance intense, emotional, dangerous, and impossible to put down.
